Orville "Ike" W. Hagen (September 26, 1915 – June 24, 2007) was a

North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. Its platform is conservative. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling North Dakota's at-large U.S. House seat, both U.S. ...

politician who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of

North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...

under Governor

William Guy William Augustus Guy (13 June 1810 – 10 September 1885) was a British physician and medical statistician. Life He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg an ...

, and as the state's first North Dakota Commissioner of Labor from 1966 to 1986 when he lost his bid for re-election to Byron Knutson. He tried to run on the Republican Party ticket for

Governor of North Dakota The governor of North Dakota is the head of government of North Dakota and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The Constitution of North Dakota specifies that "the executive power is vested in the governor" in Secti ...

in 1980, but was defeated in the primary by Allen I. Olson. Hagen was born on the family farm outside of

Watford City, North Dakota Watford City (Hidatsa: abaʔaruʔush), founded in 1914, is a city in and the county seat of McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 6,207 at the 2020 census, making it the thirteenth largest city in North Dakota. Becaus ...

. He was the son of Oscar W. Hagen (1884-1945) and Carrie (Scollard) Hagen (1886- 1961). He attended Dickinson State College. In 1939, he married Astrid Berg. Early in his career, he worked on his father's weeklynewspaper, the ''McKenzie Counter Leader'' and later the ''Watford (ND) Guide''. He worked for the ''Williston (ND) Herald'' until 1946. He died at the age of 91 and was buried at Schafer Cemetery

McKenzie County, North Dakota McKenzie County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,704. Its county seat is Watford City. The county lies immediately adjacent to the Williston Micropolitan Statistical Area, although th ...

References

1915 births 2007 deaths Lieutenant Governors of North Dakota North Dakota Labor Commissioners People from McKenzie County, North Dakota North Dakota Republicans 20th-century American politicians American Lutherans 20th-century Lutherans {{NorthDakota-politician-stub